It's Pouring Rain South Of Brisbane.

We were promised dark skies and rainy periods for today. However as I type we have had less than 2mls of rain (8/100ths of an inch) while areas on the Gold Coast about 180kms (110miles) south of us have had up to 250mls or 10" of rain overnight. And the rain is now heading inland. Our skies are grey and overcast as this photo shows but the heavens just will not open up! After a hot and sticky 32 yesterday some drenching rain would certainly refresh everything here on the Sunshine Coast.

Yesterday afternoon was an air conditioner afternoon! The house warms up quickly at this time of the year and as the humidity rises things become more uncomfortable. I managed an hour or so in the pool which was extremely pleasant.

I did a presentation yesterday at the Computer Club on Media Players, small TV add ons which allow you to play many of your photos, music and movie files from your PC on to your TV. You transfer the files you want to play on to an external hard drive from your PC. You then attach the Hard Drive to the Media Player which in turn is attached to your TV. Media Players are ideal for showing movies you have downloaded from the internet. This is an illegal practice and is severely frowned upon at the Computer Club. Needless to say I had to tread carefully with my presentation so as not to upset some of the Computer Club hierarchy.

The presentation went well and a couple of people were up speaking with me after the presentation asking more questions.

Last night we watched The Hurt Locker, one of the nominations for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Trish and I have seen quite of few of the nominated movies but there isn't anything we have seen which gets close to the quality of the 2009 nominations. We haven't seen Avatar (and probably won't bother with it - it isn't our type of movie) nor have we seen "Precious" though it is there on the internet. The story line just doesn't grab either of us. We have seen the cartoon movie "Up", and George Clooney's "Up in the Air" and the Coen Brother's "A Serious Man". Again none of them are as good as Gran Torino, The Changeling and other movies which missed out in 2009.